swan sighting

Last night, whilst pulling into the Acme parking lot in quest of the last of the pumpkins, I spotted an odd streak of light in the sky. I sat in my parked car, trying to figure out what I was seeing. I called my mother, who was only a few blocks away at her house, and she wandered out with the cordless looking for what I could see. We watched it move upwards, a spot of light with a dimmer tail, it’s tail lengthening as it rose. A few of Mom’s neighbors got wrangled into watching with her. No one could suss out what it was. Someone suggested a plane’s vapor trails, but we agreed we’d never seen vapor trails like that.

Came home and told my husband (HAH!), and he started futzing about online. He believes we spotted the comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN). It’s been getting brighter these past few weeks apparently.

Tonight, if you have the chance, go outside around 5:15 or so, the start of dusk, and look in the western skies for a little streak of light. What I saw looked alot like this flickr pic:

comet swan

nothing earth shattering or mesmerizing. well, a little mesmerizing.

chocolate eyeballs?

More or less

the bride stripped bare

The mosquitos like to attack her forehead.

She still does not know what happened on this season’s “Project Runway” finale (but she has it TiVo’d so don’t tell her!)

She probably needs to shave her legs.

She got a wicked blood blister from the pruning shears.

and she’s getting hitched tomorrow.

i would like the background to be more ivory than white.

Remember not to eat so many prunes next time.

The American Masters Documentary on Andy Warhol was pretty fine. Some of the background music was a bit clunky, but otherwise, I was educated n’ entertained.

Let’s go for a walk tonight!

but my fingers are ill.

Talking a walk last night, Kboy and I heard an owl hooting in Knight’s Park.

Driving only a few blocks in Camden yesterday, I saw two tumbleweaves.

I sorely need a haircut. I’m going to the place with the orange brick, and the blue neon. I’m going to show them the lopsided-faced, lisping hippy actress cover girl, and tell em to lowlight me. No butterfly belly tattooes required.

My core is no longer sore.